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by tsm 10y ago
I had a recent epiphany about staging, which is that it really starts making sense if you stage as you go. Let's say you want to write small feature X, and it truly makes sense for X to be a single commit. But doing X involves changing
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by tsm 10y ago
As a former expat, my understanding of the distinction is that expats realize they're temporarily in the foreign country, and are not consciously working to "go native". Immigrants believe that they've moved for good, an
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by tsm 10y ago
Yes, the length is critical.
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by tsm 10y ago
As a professional violinist who's played both a Strad and a del Gesu (and who spent several months with a 1770 Nicolo Gagliano), and who studies with someone whose daily driver is a del Gesu (and who's been playing antique Cremone
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by tsm 10y ago
Yes, in my opinion the Thinkpad peaked somewhere around the T43 or the IBM-made T60 (which was also made by Lenovo). Good keyboard layout, travel distance, spring distance. Even silly stuff like the shape of the key and the precise type of
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by tsm 11y ago
I live in Chicago and frequently shop at one of the Walmart Expresses that's closing on Sunday. Obviously it doesn't have the selection of a suburban supermarket many times its size, but I've never had a problem buying normal
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by tsm 11y ago
It was mentioned in passing at Clojure/West a few months ago. I wish I remembered more...this video might have more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9Xi6CNqq4&list=PLZdCLR02gr...
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by tsm 11y ago
Clojure is gaining popularity. Staples uses it (their "SparX" group), and much more notably a Clojure service is used to process every single transaction in Walmart stores.
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by tsm 11y ago
I use standard coffee because I get it free at work. But I've heard instant coffee is also good.
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by tsm 11y ago
It's simultaneously neutral and filling—sort of like the fullness you get when you have a big bite of oatmeal (except it's a liquid, of course). I compare the taste to pancake batter, but might be in the minority on that. My new t
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by tsm 11y ago
Wouldn't there be huge copyright issues with that?
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by tsm 11y ago
Yes, I was incredibly surprised that there was a long article on Lisp interpretation that didn't touch on QUOTE at all.
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by tsm 11y ago
var tokenize = function(input) { return replace(/$/g, ' ( ') .replace(/$/g, ' ) ') .trim() .split(/\s+/); }; Code lik
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by tsm 11y ago
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Y
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by tsm 11y ago
A lot of mentally impaired people are eager for a chance to have work they can handle...along with its associated benefits (something to do, earning money...) Not all mentally impaired people; there is of course a spectrum.
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by tsm 11y ago
And the shorthand: $ ls -l /tmp/foo ls: cannot access /tmp/foo: No such file or directory $ ^foo^bar -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Apr 17 19:12 /tmp/bar
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by tsm 12y ago
This was incredibly helpful, thanks!
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by tsm 12y ago
Any recommendations for a backend web developer who knows the basics of HTML and CSS but not much more?
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by tsm 12y ago
Why not have both? I find Intrepid Ibex, Gutsy Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hardy Heron, etc. to be quite sortable.
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by tsm 12y ago
There's one for sale here: https://www.redshelf.com/book/16734/discrete-mathematics-and...
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by tsm 12y ago
I too took this course as a freshman, and it was one of the most enlightening things I've ever done for my software engineering career. It's worth getting the most recent copy--it has a lot of corrections and entire new chapters o
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by tsm 12y ago
Yes, exactly
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by tsm 12y ago
Disclaimer: Groupon engineer (but not speaking for company). Groupon's a lot more than daily deals now—that (what we call "Local") is still a big part of the business, but there is also Goods, Getaways, our POS/inventory
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by tsm 12y ago
Apartment Guide gave me a mug at Clojure/West last year...I was a little surprised that they were so invested in Clojure that they were sending multiple devs with boxes of swag to a Clojure conference. The devs I talked to also said th
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by tsm 12y ago
OCR could be very exciting...I'll be interested to see how that works. That said, I'm not quite sure what the value-add would be. Full-text search isn't super-handy. Searching by musical phrase would be nice, but very hard to
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by tsm 12y ago
Semi-professional musician fairly involved with sheet music here (I made [0], for instance). I was really excited to see this come up. A few notes: * It's not obvious at all how to get music into PrimaVista. "Evernote for sheet mu
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by tsm 12y ago
Cursive (an IntelliJ plugin) is probably the #2 behind CIDER/Emacs right now.
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by tsm 12y ago
The truth is both are blazing fast, but at least on my machine git status is a hair faster: $ mkdir baz $ cd baz $ time git init Initialized empty Git repository in ~/src/tmp/baz/.git/ rea
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Rich Hickey – Inside Transducers [video](youtube.com)
112 points by tsm 12y ago|49 comments
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by tsm 12y ago
Great post, thanks for writing it. Since you mentioned you're using vim keybinding yourself, I thought I'd mention that any time you type x$ (where x stands for delete, change, yank, etc), it's better expressed as X[1]. You m

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